SQL Contracts in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 18
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 65 60 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 10.02% 5.40% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.52% 19.93% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 43 66
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £375 £416 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £456 £638 £584
90th Percentile £588 £713 £675
South West median daily rate £444 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £57.50
75th Percentile £27.25 - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £64.10
South West median hourly rate £26.50 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.67% -47.83% +0.56%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 183 301 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.20% 27.09% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 149 233
10th Percentile £329 £313 £350
25th Percentile £363 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +4.40% -9.00%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £620 £650 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 100 52
10th Percentile £63.00 £54.98 £53.88
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.91
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.75 - £70.30
90th Percentile £74.75 £77.55 -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% +8.33%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.77%) SAS
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.00%) AWS
2 12 (18.46%) Azure
3 10 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.77%) Adobe Analytics
5 5 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.54%) GCP
9 1 (1.54%) Matillion
9 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) Relational Database
2 16 (24.62%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (15.38%) Power BI
4 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.15%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.62%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.62%) Power Query
5 3 (4.62%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.08%) Redis
6 2 (3.08%) Tableau
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.54%) Looker
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) JIRA
3 2 (3.08%) DBeaver
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.54%) Ant
4 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (30.77%) Finance
2 12 (18.46%) Marketing
3 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.31%) Banking
5 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.69%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.15%) Electronics
7 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.08%) Local Government
9 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.54%) Billing
9 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Senior
2 18 (27.69%) Developer
3 16 (24.62%) Analyst
3 16 (24.62%) Applications Support
4 15 (23.08%) Senior Applications Support
5 10 (15.38%) Lead
6 9 (13.85%) Applications Support Analyst
6 9 (13.85%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (13.85%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 9 (13.85%) Senior Support Analyst
6 9 (13.85%) Support Analyst
7 8 (12.31%) Data Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Analytics Manager
8 7 (10.77%) Data Analyst
8 7 (10.77%) Data Analytics Manager
8 7 (10.77%) Data Manager
8 7 (10.77%) Insight Manager
8 7 (10.77%) Senior Developer
8 7 (10.77%) Strategy Manager
8 7 (10.77%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) React
2 5 (7.69%) SOAP
3 4 (6.15%) .NET
3 4 (6.15%) .NET Core
3 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.15%) JMS
3 4 (6.15%) XML
3 4 (6.15%) XSD
4 3 (4.62%) CSS
4 3 (4.62%) HTML
4 3 (4.62%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (3.08%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.08%) Spring
6 1 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.54%) PySpark
6 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.08%) Replication
4 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.54%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) ETL
2 16 (24.62%) Logistics
3 14 (21.54%) Agile
3 14 (21.54%) Analytics
3 14 (21.54%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (21.54%) Data Protection
4 9 (13.85%) Visualisation
5 8 (12.31%) CI/CD
5 8 (12.31%) OO
6 7 (10.77%) Business Transformation
6 7 (10.77%) Critical Thinking
6 7 (10.77%) Data Extraction
6 7 (10.77%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (10.77%) Digital Banking
6 7 (10.77%) Digital Strategy
6 7 (10.77%) Migration
6 7 (10.77%) Project Delivery
6 7 (10.77%) Storytelling
6 7 (10.77%) Test Automation
6 7 (10.77%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.38%) Python
2 8 (12.31%) R
3 7 (10.77%) PL/SQL
4 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.15%) C#
5 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.08%) Java
7 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.54%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) SC Cleared
1 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) GDPR
2 10 (15.38%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.62%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Terraform
2 3 (4.62%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Adobe
2 7 (10.77%) Teradata
3 6 (9.23%) Oracle
4 4 (6.15%) Blue Prism
4 4 (6.15%) MuleSoft
4 4 (6.15%) SAP
4 4 (6.15%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.15%) SnapLogic
5 3 (4.62%) Informatica
6 2 (3.08%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.54%) Foundry
7 1 (1.54%) IFS
7 1 (1.54%) Palantir
7 1 (1.54%) Pardot
7 1 (1.54%) Salesforce